Oct 13, 2016 - Research

Find Us At ASHG

Attending the annual American Society of Human Genetics meeting in Vancouver next week?23andMe_Logo_blog

We’d love to hear from you! Attend our talks, come by our posters, and find us at our booth.

The 23andMe research team has a full slate of presentations and posters at ASHG this year.

Wednesday, Oct 19

TALK
11:30am – 12:00pm

From GWAS and Mendelian Genes to Therapeutic Drug Targets

Richard Scheller, 23andMe Chief Science Officer and Head of richard-smallTherapeutics
The Therapeutics group at 23andMe is using human genetic data as the starting point for identifying new therapies for both common and rare diseases.

Session 20.

From GWAS and Mendelian Genes to Therapeutic Drug Targets
Ballroom B, West Building, Convention Centre

POSTERS
3 pm – 4 pm

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Karl Heilbron, 23andMe Post-doctoral Computational Biologist

Poster #: PgmNr 406

Convention Centre, Exhibit Hall B, West Building

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Robert Bell, 23andMe Bioinformaticist

Poster #: PgmNr 430

Convention Centre, Exhibit Hall B, West Building

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Aaron Kleinman, 23andMe Senior Computational Biologist

Poster #: PgmNr 496

Convention Centre, Exhibit Hall B, West Building

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Nicholas Furlotte, 23andMe Statistical Geneticist

Poster #: PgmNr 514

Convention Centre, Exhibit Hall B, West Building

Thursday, Oct 20
EDUCATIONAL SEMINAR (registration required)
1pm — 2:30pm

New Models in Genotyping: Incentivizing Recruitment, Engaging Participants and Accelerating Research Results

Location: Ballroom B, East Building, Convention Centre

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How the consumerization of genomics benefits research

Joyce Tung, 23andMe VP of R&D

Reimagining genetic studies: Genotyping Services for Research

Robert Borkowski, 23andMe Product Managerrobertb-small

POSTERS
2 pm – 3 pm

 

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Olga Sazonova, Computational Biologist

Poster #: PgmNr 1409
Convention Centre,

Exhibit Hall B, West Building

3 pm – 4 pm

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Janie Shelton, 23andMe Survey Methodologist

Poster #: PgmNr 350
Convention Centre, Exhibit Hall B, West Building

 

The impact of personal experience with direct ­-to- ­consumer genetic testing on physician readiness

Erynn Gordon, 23andMe Director of Clinical Developmenterynn2-small

Poster #: PgmNr 3098

Convention Centre, Exhibit Hall B, West Building

Friday, Oct 21

POSTERS
2 pm – 3 pm

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Michael Multhaup, 23andMe Product Scientist

Poster #: PgmNr 477

Convention Centre, Exhibit Hall B, West Building

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Fah Sathirapongsasuti, 23andMe Computational Biologist

Poster #: PgmNr 1719

Convention Centre, Exhibit Hall B, West Building

Saturday, Oct 22

TALK
9:15am – 9:30am

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Chao Tian, 23andMe Senior Statistical Geneticist

PgmNr 276
Session 78.

Neuropsychiatric Diseases of the Young and Old
Room 221, West Building, Convention Centre

You can also find us at our marketing booth #211.

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